Shit like this is why I haven't watched network news in years. It is all directly the fucking asshole's fault!

And Hunter's laptop!

Is CNN the network that cut from a speech Hillary was delivering -- back during the 2016 campaign -- to show an empty stage where Trump was expected but didn't show up for about 30 minutes after he was scheduled to arrive?

(Just checked. Yes, turns out CNN and MSNBC both pulled that stunt. Idiots in charge of those networks should have been fired for cronyism. But that was then. Both of these networks are much more serious now about going after the wannabe dictator, ain't that true, Jim Acosta, Terry Moran, Mehdi Hassan, Joy Reid, and the rest of the good journalists who focused on Trump's efforts to destroy the Constitution?)

...caught his chain and fell off of his bike.

their ratings sink. This "gem" is from their homepage.

They make more by collaborating with the Republicans.

Thanks for expressing it so succinctly.

Who writes this shit?

THAT'S WHO

Cuz if it wasn’t for Obama we wouldn’t have Biden.

Do I need the sarcasm thingy?

They would have had to pass through Congress to have any teeth. And there was no chance of that happening.

CNN
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Ethics watchdogs rarely mince words about President Donald Trump. They’ve called him the most corrupt and conflicted president in US history. And since he returned to the White House, they’ve watched with horror as he privately dined with wealthy investors for his personal memecoin fund, brazenly accepted a $400 million luxury airplane from Qatar and purged inspectors general from federal agencies.

Adding to their long list of gripes, the president’s company announced Monday that it was launching Trump Mobile, a wireless service with monthly plans and a $499 smartphone, which would be regulated by many of the federal agencies now run by Trump appointees.
That has led to soul-searching among Washington, DC’s self-appointed ethics watchdogs at advocacy groups and think tanks, who are wondering how this could’ve been prevented. Some have championed liberal causes for years; others aren’t beholden to either party but are stunned by Trump’s sea-change to the ethics landscape.

While they primarily hold Trump responsible for his own actions, they’re increasingly concluding that former President Joe Biden also deserves some of the blame. “The single biggest failure of the Biden administration was that he and Congress didn’t pass any post-Watergate-style reforms,” said Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, director of government affairs at the nonpartisan Project on Government Oversight. “President Biden had zero interest in doing that, and congressional Democrats didn’t have much interest.”

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/government-ethics-norms-trump-biden-analysis

Judging by the Tapper book, the town halls and not discussing the scope of the current occupants disastrous decisions makes it appear they might be a little biased.

They are totally biased against Biden and democrats. Unfortunately, some spend more time being apologists for the corporate media than supporting democrats.

THE FILIBUSTER.

If Biden had TRIED to pass any reforms, they'd have been knocked down as soon as they were mentioned, and he'd be on some magat hit list for even suggesting such a thing. Besides, we took trump to task on emoluments the first go-round, and the courts and everyone just said "What emoluments?!"

filibustered it. I'm sure they tried other good govt reforms that the GOP blocked.

Also, Biden passed a shitload of stuff that brought the country back from major crisis.

For now.

Ownership matters.

Trump’s corruption is Biden’s fault?!?

Good grief.

And, everything that did get through, Trump is ignoring.

So, enough with this losing rhetoric of blaming Biden for everything.

Frankly, he did some very bright things, like made sure there wasn't any surplus money out there for Trump to confiscate and the Congressed forced this Congress to raise the debt limit.

...where is the proof that Trump would have followed the new rules?
This is a "concern" untethered from reality.

unapologetic,on and on with the "uns".
I'm sure some DUers can add to the ever expanding list of dismal adjectives.

This is another way of "normalizing" trump as though he's just another President who can be expected to do what other Presidents have done.

white straight male repukes get a pass

I shit you not, people

— NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) 2025-06-17T18:47:48.869Z

"Failure" is in quotes, at least!

Not one of them did enough to prevent Donnie from being brazenly and over-the-top corrupt.

Why single out Biden?

Why not just note that Donnie is the first president to be a convicted felon *and* abuse his office like one.

They suck for sure.

the morning of the Senator and Rep getting assassinated and the Trump crap out......
I turned to my local Fox station and they had on cartoons, then I turned to the main Fox channel and they had a soccer game on......

Even MSNBC when it doesn't have the Left people on at night is 20 hours a day of leaning right....

to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, I expect any day a Republican bill to name The United States of America to:

The United Corporations of America, or The Corporate Fascist States of America...

But, boy, that old Joe Biden sure had us all fooled, didn't he? With low interest rates, good jobs, more peace and security in the world. What were we thinking! :O Now we have Big Daddy Trump to take care of us and make the mean people be nice to America again...

Oh. Wait. Got to adjust my tin foil hat, the rays were leaking in again.

about Trump and the GOP's lack of honor, integrity, leadership and duty to the American people..
JFC.

Many of the narratives used by the corporate media employ that tactic. It's gaslighting of the worst kind, especially for a "news" outlet.

The MSM is so complicit as to where we are right now.

Should be obvious to anyone paying attention. Either that, or these "experts" in the article are playing dumb.

Even local Los Angeles KCAL Ch 9, had a segment for a little while called "The Presidency" (or something like that), in which they talked about how wonderful trump is. No talk from the opposite side.

It may have been at the 100 day mark, either way, it was also just after he was taking federal funds away from organizations that disagreed with him.

As you have to be a subscriber to access it, and I'm not. From that headline, though, I can't see that as CNN's viewpoint. It's an analysis, and the word failure is in quotation marks, as if the author of the article doesn't see it that way. Two CNN reporters or analysts I do like and respect: Abby Phillips and Andrew McCabe. There are others, too, can't think of right now.

Cowards.

Town hall. Then came the Jake Crapper book about Biden. Those fucks want to work both sides of the street thinking Dems will watch anyway.

Not me...................

Is Biden responsible for Watergate now?

No other President after Nixon passed "Post-Watergate Reforms".

Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump V1.0. But Biden, with no margin of error in the Senate and unable to override a McConnell-led Filibuster wall, is at fault.

At least CNN put "Failure" in quotes.

WTF reforms are they suggesting?

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C7-1/ALDE_00000233/

during his first term. There's no way anyone's gonna use it now. I guess CNN will blame that on Biden too? Total insanity if you ask me.

that have absolutely nothing to do with each other

Can’t call out Trump’s lawlessness without raking a dig at Biden. Who are these experts?

They should have had the story marked as an opinion in the headline, but it clearly says "analysis" at the beginning.

People need to learn the difference between news stories and opinions. They are two different things.

it's just ANOTHER EXAMPLE of how freaking BIASED the mainstream news has become

they are afraid of being targets of Trump and his brand of fascism

Newspapers in this country have been printing opinions (and opinions they don't agree with) since before the Declaration of Independence. It's part of freedom of the press. You or I may not agree with what the writer says, but they have a right to say it under our Constitution ... the same Constitution and rights that we're battling now to keep intact.

The only way this could be anything close to bias was if they did like Fox does - all of their crap is reported without any indication of opinion because, of course, they agree with it. This piece was clearly marked as "opinion," as it should have been. CNN did absolutely nothing wrong. Anyone standing up for our democracy should be standing up for their right to print this as opinion.

The lines between news and opinion have certainly become blurred in recent years. But newspaper opinion pieces are and always will be different than news.

People would be saving themselves a lot of stress by realizing that opinion pieces will always be there in newspapers (and on properly managed news sites). As I said earlier, it's all part of freedom of the press -- something we all know and love. Well, at least those of us on this side of the aisle.

and most of them are compolaining about things that have no basis in reality.

I don't understand why people aren't boycotting them. I haven't put those fascists on my TV in years.

If everyone turned off CNN and blocked their online news feeds and it shriveled up and fucking died the slow painful death a toxic propaganda outlet deserves.

In fact, it would be one step closer to a Trump dictatorship.

CNN, I think, tries to be middle of the road in its coverage. I don't always see eye to eye with what they do, but I'd take anything they do over what Fox and the rest of the RW media idiots do.

The real media -- and that includes CNN -- isn't trying to bow to our feet like the RW side does to their lemmings. That's a very good thing. We need an independent media, especially now. And CNN is that. Look at all the criticism they get from both sides.

...that APPEASES the Trump Cult. Doing the classic, vomit-inducing 'both-siderist' maneuver. Hiring MAGA peckerheads to try to bring Republican leaning voters into the fold is just a dereliction of journalistic duty. On the one hand, you have Democrats, who want to have a sensible tax code, a humane foreign policy, and treat all people with respect. Fine. Now, bring on a bunch of fanatics from a personality cult, who want to turn the country into a Putin-style white, Christian, nationalist KLEPTOCRACY.

Because 'both sides,' right?

FUCK THAT! If CNN tries to mollycoddle a gang of plutocrats who are trying to destroy the country as we know it...fuck em!

Seriously, Anderson Cooper is the only person on that abominable network I'll watch. And if they happen to show Jake Crapper's face during a commercial promo, I usually end up having to buy another TV. (LED TVs don't tend to work very well after somebody has put the remote, dead center, into the middle of the screen.)

At this point, CNN is only marginally better than those vapid lickspittles at ABC, who fired Terry Moran, after he politely pointed out the FACT that Trump is insane if he thinks that MS13 photograph wasn't photoshopped. Apparently, any reporter who shows some character and dedication will have the life expectancy of a donut in a police station at ABC.

BOYCOTT CNN and ABC. And put MSNBC on notice that we're watching what they do. Just because they're the only network left that hasn't COMPLETELY sold their souls for ratings doesn't mean our viewership is GUARANTEED. At this point, I'm hoping Rachel Maddow takes all the money they've been paying her, and starts her own network. I'd switch in a heartbeat.

news group.

i hardly listen to cnn, and no longer visit their website very often. I used to visit several times a day, now it may be once a week. I'm tired of the bullshit both ways headlines and the both siderisms.

MSNBC is better but also getting restrained.

They have bent the knee. Don't give them any ratings support! They had a chance to repair the damage done from the Mango I regime, but decided to trash Biden/Harris instead, against their own best interests. Now that Mango II is fully in force, CNN once again shrinks from its responsibilities. Have not watched them in years, and frankly, have not missed anything. MSNBC, BBC, Reuters, AP, The Guardian, and BlueSky all have better, factual coverage of current events.